I cannot launch Firefox (suddenly) nor can I open Profile Manager, what next?
Windows 7, 64 bit. Experienced some Windows updates but I restored to prior to the updates and still cannot open Firefox. Can open Safari and IE.
There is a problem fairly soon in the process if profile manager will not start.
You could try in Firefox's [[safe-mode]] next you could try in Windows safemode by using the F8 key.
From what you say I am wondering if you have done a Windows restore of some form and recreated Firefox that way. Firefox does not always restore properly from Windows. You may be looking at re-installing Firefox.
If you consider re-installing do NOT take any options from Windows or Firefox that offers to delete personal settings because that will destroy things like passwords and bookmarks.
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Hello ....
I Have Firefox 31.0 , The Last one
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When I Make those paths
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firefox.exe -p
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -no-remote -p'
Now The problem when i write one of the paths , It opens Firefox [Browser]
I need to open The Profile Manager and make new user and use both of them in the same time
Thanks .....Otherwise a new browser window will just open instead.
Though if entered correctly the -no-remote switch along with -P should open the ProfileManager so you can run a second instance with another Profile. Basically you cannot run more than one instance on same Profile. -
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with every command that an extensive search has revealed. each attempt yields a "no such file or directory response"; e.g.,Last login: Tue Nov 29 00:26:23 on ttys000
Welcome to Darwin!
r-c-wolins-computer:~ rcwolin$ /Functions/firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox -profilemanager
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r-c-wolins-computer:~ rcwolin$. i'm using a macbook 3,1 with os 10.6.8 and ff 4.0.1. what am i doing wrong and how can i rectify it?
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== This happened ==
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== Last week ==
== User Agent ==
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8Thanks for your help. I had tried starting Firefox in safe-mode before I posted this request, but it did not work. I tried to restore the system to an earlier version, but that made everything worse. Two accounts were unusable and one sort of worked, so I reloaded the operating system and now firefox works, for how long, I don't know. But thanks again for your suggestion.
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MAC desktop being used. When I click on my Firefox app it looks and looks then brings up a window: Profile Missing.
Obviously, I cannot do much without opening Firefox.
What do I do next?Create a new profile as a test to check if your current profile is causing the problems.
See "Basic Troubleshooting: Make a new profile":
*https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Basic+Troubleshooting#w_8-make-a-new-profile
If that new profile works then you can transfer some files from the old profile to that new profile, but be careful not to copy corrupted files.
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*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Transferring_data_to_a_new_profile_-_Firefox -
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